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Burness Paull has appointed Deborah Adam as director in its pensions team.

"Shocking" local variations in early death rates have been revealed by a Public Health England (PHE) website that ranks local authorities according to levels of avoidable deaths.

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published guidelines on remuneration for companies and regulators in the investment sector.

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has threatened a national strike after it "firmly rejected" the proposals from the Royal Mail to make changes to its pension plan.

RPMI has appointed Paul Faulkner as head of pensions operations for rail services.

The Court of Appeal has ruled that the Olympic Airlines Pension Scheme cannot move into the Pension Protection Fund (PPF).

Companies with defined benefit (DB) schemes restating 2012 accounting figures to reflect IAS19R will show a reduction in pre-tax profits by around £5bn, Towers Watson warns.

Tesco group pensions director Ruston Smith will succeed Mark Hyde Harrison as chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF).

The rise in the yield on government debt has cut private sector deficits by over a quarter, research from the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) finds.

Annuity rates have declined by 29% since the introduction of the Bank of England's quantitative easing programme, AXA Life Europe has found.